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last updated 12/1/2011
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SYLLABUS Unit I - Some Contemporary Media Theory | ||
| Tues. | 8/23 |
Intro to the Course - What are "The Media?" Who is a Journalist? What is their impact? | The Unknown Citizen". |
| Thurs. | 8/25 |
Citizenship and Communication - Jim Leach on Political Speech | Key Media Concepts | Flagging the Text |
| Tues. | 8/30 | Two Big Ideas I: History, Politics, Media. | II, ch 1 & Haynes |
| Unit II - Traditional News Media - "Free" Content | ||
| Thurs. | 9/1 |
Two Big Ideas II: Technology + $ --> Content |
| Tues. | 9/6 |
What is News? Myths | II, ch 2 & Robinson |
| Thurs. | 9/8 |
News as Persuasion? | II, ch 3 | ABC World News web site |
| Tues. | 9/13 | |
| Thurs. | 9/15 |
Influences on the News and Public Opinion | II, ch 4 |
| Tues. | 9/20 |
Influencing News Content. | II, ch. 5 |
| Thurs. | 9/22 |
Analyzing and Interpreting News - Critical Reception. | Analysis Paper due |
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Unit III - Advertising - "Paid" Content | ||
| Tues. | 9/27 | |
| Thurs. | 9/29 |
Advertising for Influence. | Intro to Team Projects - Information Evaluation Assignment introduction |
| Tues. | 10/4 | What Ads Reveal | II, ch 6 | Review and Overview. |
| Thurs. | 10/6 | EXAM 1 |
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10/8 - 10/11 |
FALL BREAK | |
| Thurs.. | 10/13 |
Advertisers' Goals | | II, chs 7 | Exam Wrap |
| Tues | 10/19 |
Politics, News, Ads. | II, ch 10 |
| Thurs. | 10/20 |
"Information Evaluation" Assignment -- Team Oral Reports - ALL Teams |
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Unit IV - Media/New Media! Information Literacy and Decisions | ||
| Tues. | 10/25 |
The Internet and "New Media"
-- Web 2.0 |
II, ch 9 |
| Thurs. | 10/27 | |
| Tues. | 11/1 | |
| Thurs. | 11/3 | Deliberation and Discovery of Information - READ Infotopia, ch. 2 (handout) | Flagging the Text |
| Tues. | 11/8 | |
| Thurs. | 11/10 |
What is Information? What is Information/Media Literacy | II, ch 11 |
| Tues. | 11/15 |
Information Literacies, con't | Team Workday |
| Thurs. | 11/17 |
Information Literacy Programs presented | Teams: Team 1 & Team 3 |
| Tues. | 11/22 |
Information Literacy Programs presented | Teams: Team 2 & Team 4 |
| 11/21 - 12/2 |
Media/Info Literacy Programs may have out-of-class times scheduled | |
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11/23- 11/27 |
Thanksgiving Break | |
| Tues. | 11/29 |
The Self-directed Citizen |
| Thurs. | 12/1 | |
| Tues. | 12/6 |
Review - A New Paradigm of Social Structure and Citizenship? |
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Final Exam: 8am, Friday, December 9
NOTE: Additional readings, viewing and homework will be assigned occasionally from handouts distributed in class, by links in this syllabus, electronically by Email or on the INTG 415 Web Site . Texts and additional readings may become the basis for "participation" grades, quizzes, and homework; therefore students must constantly remain aware of these reading/viewing assignments and complete them before the assigned class meeting.
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